1. Caribbean

http://blogs.uprm.edu/ceacc

Boundaries and Bridges: English Studies in the Borderlands

Visit the Caribbean CEA website for the complete CFP.

Email cea.cc.conference@gmail.com with queries.

DEADLINE: November 13, 2009

2. Florida

http://www.flacea.org/index.html

3. Georgia-South Carolina

http://www.valdosta.edu/note

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4. Indiana

http://www.iue.edu/organizations/icea/member.php

5. Michigan

http://www.michcea.org

Turning Points

A turning point is that sometimes sudden decision, insight, or more often gradual realization that causes events to follow a different course. Frost referred to this concept when he wrote, "Two roads diverged in a wood, and I - / I took the one less traveled by, / And that has made all the difference." It can come in the form of a decision made, like Hemingway's Frederic Henry's decision to desert the army, or in the form of a departmental shift in policy, an instructor's decision to try a new text or offer an on-line course, or a graduate student's dissertation decision. Whether the end results are positive or negative, how do we/others recognize these turning points?

Proposals are due by Friday, September 24, 2010. Early submissions are welcome. Please submit proposals to Ed Demerly, Program Chair, via email at edemerly@aol.com

DEADLINE: September 24, 2010

6. Middle Atlantic

http://cea.stevensonuniversity.org/

This year's conference invokes eye and ear as we consider the themes of voices and visions. We invite papers or panels on literature, language, cultural studies, composition, and pedagogy that contemplate these themes both within the discipline of English and in other areas of the humanities. We encourage interdisciplinary papers and panels.

Please email your paper abstracts (of 500 words or less) or panel proposals by Dec. 1 to LDipaula@towson.edu , Lauren DiPaula, Program Committee Chair, (410) 704-3347. Acceptance letters will be sent out in mid-January. A conference registration/CEA-MAG membership fee of $40 ($30 for adjunct instructors and $20 for graduate students) will be required when you mail in your registration for the conference in the spring of 2010. Other questions about the conference may be directed to Michael Eckert, CEA-MAG President, at Mike.Eckert@montgomerycollege.edu (301) 251-7414.

DEADLINE: December 1, 2009

7. New Jersey
http://www.njcea.org

For information on the 2010 conference, contact Nira Gupta Casale , Conference Chair.

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Theme:  New Horizons: Changing Pedagogies, Scholarship, and Professional Development in English Studies

In her 2004 article  “Made Not Only in Words: Composition in a New Key” Kathleen Blake Yancey speaks of the changes occurring in writing on a global scale and the need for teachers to be aware of these in order to adapt to them through classroom and curriculum strategies.  She echoes throughout the presentation that “we have a moment” and emphasizes that now is the time to be proactive and to call for changes on local, regional, and national levels.

Similarly, now is the time for English departments to recognize the changes occurring outside of our departments and our classrooms and to reflect on how to adapt, incorporate, or resist these changes.  The rise in technology, increased access to archives and literary texts, the threat of standardization, the current economic perils, and the diversity of professoriate and  student body will also affect the future of programs and classes in literature, composition, creative writing, and linguistics.  As in 2004, we again “have a moment.”

Send proposals of 300 words or less along with a one page CV by February 26, 2010 to: spring2010 at englishceao.org . All proposals submitted by the deadline will be considered.

DEADLINE: February 26, 2010

11. Pennsylvania
http://www.english.iup.edu/pcea

English Studies & Social Justice

PCEA invites faculty, graduate and undergraduate students, and independent scholars and writers to submit abstracts of 300 words or less proposing a panel or individual presentation. While this year's conference theme celebrates English Studies & Social Justice, proposals in any area of literary, film, and composition studies are welcome. Both pedagogical and theoretical proposals are encouraged, as are proposals to present original creative writing. To preserve time for discussion, PCEA limits all presentations to 15 minutes. Presenters must join PCEA in order to participate.

Conference Submission

Please include your name, affiliation (if any), mailing address, phone number, e-mail address, submission title(s), any A/V needs, and 300 word abstract in a ONE PAGE word document. Panel submissions should include an abstract and AV needs for the panel, as well as all panelists' names, paper titles, and affiliations. Panels must consist of at least three presenters and, in order to leave time for questions, should not last longer than 60 minutes. Send this information to PCEA2010@gmail.com .

DEADLINE: January 31, 2010

Please submit a 200-350 word abstract and a brief CV to Travis Montgomery at tdmontg1@olemiss.edu by Friday, March 26, 2010. Panel selections will be announced in April 2010. A complete CFP list for the 2010 SCMLA Convention is available online at http://www.ou.edu/scmla/

DEADLINE: March 26, 2010

13. Texas

http://www.english.txwes.edu/tcea

March 4-6, 2010

Texas Horizons

The horizon has traditionally served as a delimiting feature of the landscape.  But it has also served as a beckoning invitation to exploration.  Because of its topographical diversity, our state offers both severely obstructed and panoramically expansive views of the horizon.  We invite compositions, scholarly and creative, that engage this topic of Texas horizons--whether they be literal, metaphorical, physical, spiritual, individual, or communal.  What horizons have shaped the vision, culture, folk life, literature, and film of Texas and its inhabitants?  How has a given horizon proven liberating or, conversely, stultifying?

Send submissions by November 1, 2009 to Dr. Steve Weathers

DEADLINE: November 1, 2009